The doctoral seminar 15.764 focuses on theoretical work for studying operations planning and control problems. This term's special topic, "Customer-Driven Operations," considers how a number of companies have succeeded in focusing their operation systems on the customer. The class reviews the quantitative models and theoretical tools underlying some of the customer-driven operational practices of these cutting-edge companies. Students will read and present research papers on topics such as distribution systems, short life-cycle product management, and forecast evolution models.
This MIT OpenCourseWare site is dedicated to the memory of Bhuwan Singh, a member of the class. The doctoral seminar 15.764 focuses on theoretical work for studying operations planning and control problems. This term's special topic, "Customer-Driven Operations," considers how a number of companies have succeeded in focusing their operation systems on the customer. The class reviews the quantitative models and theoretical tools underlying some of the customer-driven operational practices of these cutting-edge companies. Students will read and present research papers on topics such as distribution systems, short life-cycle product management, and forecast evolution models.
This MIT OpenCourseWare site is dedicated to the memory of Bhuwan Singh, a member of the class.

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Author: BRAY, Emily Octavia Lady
Page: 109
Year: 1893
Place: London
Publisher: Wells Gardner & Co.
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How does one writer use another writer's work? Does it matter if one author has been dead 300 years? What difference does it make if she's a groundbreaking twentieth-century feminist and the writer she values has come to epitomize the English literary tradition? How can a novelist borrow from plays and poems? By reading Virginia Woolf's major novels and essays in juxtaposition with some of the Shakespeare plays that (depending on one's interpretation) haunt, enrich, and/or shape her writing, we will try to answer these questions and raise others. Readings in literary criticism, women's studies, and other literary texts will complement our focus on the relationship--across time, media, and gender--between Shakespeare and Woolf. As a seminar, we will work to become more astute How does one writer use another writer's work? Does it matter if one author has been dead 300 years? What difference does it make if she's a groundbreaking twentieth-century feminist and the writer she values has come to epitomize the English literary tradition? How can a novelist borrow from plays and poems? By reading Virginia Woolf's major novels and essays in juxtaposition with some of the Shakespeare plays that (depending on one's interpretation) haunt, enrich, and/or shape her writing, we will try to answer these questions and raise others. Readings in literary criticism, women's studies, and other literary texts will complement our focus on the relationship--across time, media, and gender--between Shakespeare and Woolf. As a seminar, we will work to become more astute

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15.874 and 15.871 provide an introduction to system dynamics modeling for the analysis of business policy and strategy. Students learn to visualize a business organization in terms of the structures and policies that create dynamics and regulate performance. The course uses role playing games, simulation models, and management flight simulators to develop principles for the successful management of complex strategies. Special emphasis will be placed on case studies of successful strategies using system dynamics.
15.874 is a full semester course and 15.871 is a half semester course. The two classes meet together and cover the same material for the first half of the term. In the second half of the semester, only 15.874 continues. 15.874 and 15.871 provide an introduction to system dynamics modeling for the analysis of business policy and strategy. Students learn to visualize a business organization in terms of the structures and policies that create dynamics and regulate performance. The course uses role playing games, simulation models, and management flight simulators to develop principles for the successful management of complex strategies. Special emphasis will be placed on case studies of successful strategies using system dynamics.
15.874 is a full semester course and 15.871 is a half semester course. The two classes meet together and cover the same material for the first half of the term. In the second half of the semester, only 15.874 continues.

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Author: PALMER, William James Engraver
Page: 254
Year: 1882
Place: London
Publisher: Bell & Sons
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Author: AUBREY, William Hickman Smith.
Volume: 05
Page: 208
Year: 1878
Place: London
Publisher: J. Hagger
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Author: CHAMPNEY, Elizabeth Williams.
Page: 158
Year: 1888
Place: Boston
Publisher: Estes & Lauriat
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Author: BOURNON, Fernand.
Page: 44
Year: 1888
Place: Paris
Publisher:
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Author: LUPTON, Arnold.
Page: 179
Year: 1893
Place: London
Publisher: Longmans & Co.
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Author: GILLMORE, Parker.
Page: 147
Year: 1879
Place: London
Publisher: Marcus Ward & Co.
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Author: JACOBSEN, J. Adrian.
Page: 246
Year: 1887
Place: Kristiania
Publisher:
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Author: SMITH, Albert Richard.
Page: 517
Year: 1886
Place: London; Guildford [printed]
Publisher: R. Bentley & Son
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Author: AUBREY, William Hickman Smith.
Volume: 05
Page: 485
Year: 1878
Place: London
Publisher: J. Hagger
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Volume: 09
Page: 140
Year: 1892
Place: Crewe, Manchester
Publisher: Thrilling Stories? Committee
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Author: Thornbury, Walter
Volume: 05
Page: 278
Year: 1879
Place: London
Publisher:
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